Eric
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Does anyone know why my train from Shipley (10:08 to Skipton) is delayed? The conductor has announced an operational incident is a reason for the delay?
Can anyone shed anymore light?
Can anyone shed anymore light?
Some panels may not have but I'm sure some did.Yeah it was they were only out for about 10/15 mins. Problem was there was no broadcast to tell drivers to set off again
What would your contingency be?Ah yes, the good old "single point of failure" thing. Of course, nothing will go wrong, so "we" don't need to put any contingency in place.
My own "contingency" would be to not place cost cutting above resilience. By all means modernise signalling. But if, for example, there was a larger number of these ROCs wth tighter focus, then geographical coverage could more easily be short term,on-demand switched. If instead of Manchester ROC there was Manchester, Liverpool, and perhaps one or two more, then neighbouring ROCs could be permanently prepped to take on cover for neighbours at a moment's notice.What would your contingency be?
(just out of interest, you understand)
Not well enough informed to judge properly. But, for example it might be millisecond switchover to another site in the event of total failure for whatever cause.What would your contingency be?
(just out of interest, you understand)
Not well enough informed to judge properly. But, for example it might be millisecond switchover to another site in the event of total failure for whatever cause.
Put it this way: if you were on an aircraft and one given Air Traffic Control went offline for 15 minutes or 24 hours, what might you reasonably expect to take place? I hope you'd expect another ATC centre to pick it up, within a matter of seconds at the most - right?
ROC's are computer clusters. My client has a spare computer off site that has the data from the live computer mirrored onto the hot standby. If the main one goes phut, we can switch to the standby within 5 minutes.What would your contingency be?
(just out of interest, you understand)
The old TDM panels had emergency panels in the relay rooms which could be brought in when we had electronic link failures . In the event of a power failure on the ground the emergency panels were of no use . UPS and the use of generators have solved a lot of problems in remote areas and frankly every relay room should have back up generators.ROC's are computer clusters. My client has a spare computer off site that has the data from the live computer mirrored onto the hot standby. If the main one goes phut, we can switch to the standby within 5 minutes.
Its a multi site operation so staff in another site can take on work from a closed down site easily.
When reading about new power boxes in Modern Railways years ago, mention was made of panels in some relay rooms that could be brought into use in case of problems in the power box or comms failure between the power box and relay room.
Nail, hammer, head. Precisely my point...... there is not the same level of urgency to get trains on the move again.....